I can't remember if I was like this with E. I think maybe I was. It feels so much more immediate and desperate and consuming this time.
I am trying to not fall down the rabbit hole of panic that something is going to happen to baby O. That he won't wake up, that he'll be lost from me. I still feel this desperation about E, when I really stop to think and worry. I try to keep that in check, but it's so very hard.
Sneaking upstairs tonight I started to feel like a real worrywort. But I can't help it. Just lightly resting my hand on O's chest to feel it rising and falling releases the pressure. For now.
Please let him stay.
About Me
- Mary Beth
- My life on the run. Balancing family, mental and physical exercise, and all the emotional baggage accumulated throughout several decades of living.
I know. I just know.
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I do it too with both of mine. Yes, I still check on Gabriel at night sometimes, even now that he's 10. I can imagine the nagging fear is much more acute for you, check them as often as you need to restore your calm.
ReplyDeleteEvery day for the last 2 years 8 months and 17 days this feeling weighs on me and consumes me. I fear it will never end and pray to somehow make peace with it--for everyone's sake.
ReplyDeleteHow else would you possibly feel? It's not wrong, it's part of you now. And you can and will still evolve.
ReplyDelete-Your fellow worrywart
I do the same thing with Tristan and pray desperately each night and day that he stays safe.
ReplyDelete-Racheal